10 Villains Perfect For The New Marvel's Blade Game

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is Arkane Lyon's upcoming title focusing on Marvel's famous vampire hunter. Although the game's story seems to be a new one for the character, the studio may still incorporate some of the Daywalker's major adversaries from the comics throughout the main campaign.

The trailer forwas revealed at The Game Awards 2023 but reveal much about the game's story other than its location and the first glimpse at its protagonist, showing the Daywalker at a barber shop before being called into action and preparing for battle. However, a following interview with Arkane Lyon's co-creative director Dinga Bakaba and Marvel Games' vice president and creative director Bill Rosemann confirmed that the M-rated, third-person action-adventure title will take place during what appears to be a vampire apocalypse in France.

Despite not taking place in a church or cathedral, religious iconography such as crosses was shown frequently in the background of 's reveal trailer, with the barbershop's window creating one that sprawls across the floor with its light, and the barber himself was wearing a priest's attire. While this may have just been protective measures against vampires built upon stereotypes — Blade has stated that these don't work in some media — it could also be alluding to the arrival of Draconis in Arkane Lyon's game.

Draconis is a vampiric priest who has been raised with the intent of killing Blade after being approached by a vampire while working as an acolyte in the church as a young boy, so it wouldn't be surprising to see him travel to Paris in his pursuit of the Daywalker. Over time, Draconis developed an immunity to most weapons used to eradicate vampires, making him a worthy threat.

Draconis managed to successfully stake the